Lync 2013 Svc Connectivity To Realpresence Collaboration Servers - Polycom realpresence 1800 Administrator's Manual

Lync 2013 SVC Connectivity to RealPresence
Collaboration Servers
Microsoft's H.264/SVC solution has replaced RTV as the preferred video protocol for enabling video calls
in the same manner as RTV replaced H.263 as the preferred codec in previous versions. For backward
compatibility, RTV is still supported for Lync 2013.
Although similar, the Microsoft H.264/SVC solution is currently not compatible with Polycom's H.264 SVC
implementation, due to the different signaling used.
The Collaboration Server considers Lync 2010 and H.264 SVC Lync 2013 clients to be AVC endpoints. The
administrator must set the Conferencing Mode in the Conference Profile to CP (Continuous Presence) to
enable Microsoft H.264/SVC Lync clients to connect to the conference. Resource-wise, the Collaboration
Server allocates AVC ports for direct Lync clients.
Deployment Architectures
Single Premise Deployment
A single premise deployment relates to scenarios where the RealPresence Platform (RPP) solution along
with any required Microsoft entities are located in a single site.
Two Deployment Architectures are presented as examples. Both require that a Polycom RealPresence
Distributed Media Application (DMA) 7000 System be configured as part of the solution.
Although Cisco legacy endpoints are inter-operable with Collaboration Server (RMX) 1800 with no DSP
cards, the MCU is not supported for integration into third-party and partner environments.
Note: Collaboration Server (RMX) 1800 with no DSP cards
Collaboration Server (RMX) 1800 with no DSP cards, is not supported for integration into third-party
and partner environments.
● RealPresence Hosted Conferences
Both Lync clients and Standards-based video endpoints connect directly to the same conference
hosted only on the Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server.
● RealConnect Cascaded Conferences
Lync clients connect to a conference on the Lync 2013 AVMCU while Standards-based video
endpoints content to a separate conference on the Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server. The
two MCUs are cascaded together to form a single conference including all participants.
In this architecture, deployment depends on both RPP solution and a full Lync environment,
specifically Microsoft AVMCU, being located on the same site, thus allowing the Collaboration Server
to enjoy a Trusted Application Relationship with Lync.
RealConnect Cascaded Link Resiliency
The RealConnect mechanism for connecting between the conferences on the Collaboration Server
(or Polycom RPP solution) and Microsoft AVMCU, in both the single premise - second architecture,
and the remote premise architecture, ensures the resiliency of the connection between the two MCUs,
and on the off chance of a link failure, is responsible for its re-establishment.
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